Vietnam, field work and visit Institute of Ecology and Bio-Resources, Hanoi

2005

Travel grant – DFG KO 3381 1/1

Malaysia, field work and congress participation

2000

Travel grant – Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Indonesia (field work)

2000

Travel grant – EU Parsyst program

Museum National d’Histoire Natuelle, Paris

2000

Travel grant – EU Bioresource program

Natural History Museum, London

1999-2001

Post-graduate Fellowship – Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Systematics and biogeography of Asian freshwater snails, genus Brotia

Scientific publications

Köhler, F. 2011. Australocosmica, a new genus of land snails from the Kimberley, Western Australia (Eupulmonata, Camaenidae). Malacologia53: 199-216.

Köhler, F. 2010. Uncovering local endemism in the Kimberley, Western Australia: description of new species of the genus Amplirhagada Iredale, 1933 (Pulmonata: Camaenidae). Records of the Australian Museum 62: 217-284.

Willan, R.C., Köhler, F., Kessner, V., Braby, M.F. 2009. Description of four new species of limestone associated Torresitrachia land snails (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Camaenidae) from the Katherine District of the Northern Territory, with comments on their conservation. The Beagle. Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 25: 85-98.

Köhler, F., Günther, R. 2008. The radiation of microhylid frogs (Amphibia: Anura) on New Guinea: A mitochondrial phylogeny reveals parallel evolution of morphological and life history traits and disproves the current morphology-based classification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution47: 353-365.